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a dysfunctional society through the eyes
of George Zafiris, an Athens-based private
investigator. A thoughtful loner, he is
forced to probe the
heart of a failing
society as he
investigates a series of
crimes the police show
no interest in solving.
A distinguished
Professor of Ancient
History is shot dead;
then a politician dies in
mysterious circumstances; and a journalist
is murdered. George Zafiris has to find out
if these deaths are connected. ISBN: 978
1 909232 83 9
The Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs
in the Allegorical Studies of the Renaissance
by Karl Giehlow, translated with an
Introduction & Notes by RWG Raybould
(G, 54-60). The Hieroglyphenkunde,
published in 1915, described variously by
critics as ‘a masterpiece’, ‘magnificent’,
‘monumental’ and ‘incomparable’, is here
translated into English for the first time.
Giehlow’s work with an initial focus on
the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, the
manuscript of which
was discovered by
Giehlow, was a
pioneering attempt to
introduce the thesis
that Egyptian
hieroglyphics had a
fundamental influence
on the Italian literature
of allegory and symbolism and beyond
that on the evolution of all Renaissance
art. Robin Raybould’s translation and
commentary brings Giehlow’s text up to
date, greatly augments the original work
and results in an important piece of
historical scholarship which will open up
further avenues of study for a new
generation of Renaissance researchers.
Brill | Hes & De Graaf. ISBN:
9789004281721.
AH Runchman (G, 94-99) would like to
introduce his monograph Delmore
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Schwartz: A Critical Reassessment which
was published as part of Palgrave
Macmillan’s critical series on Modern and
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, edited
by Rachel Blau du Plessis. A
thoroughgoing reappraisal of Schwartz’s
oeuvre, the study was praised by Stephen
Burt (Harvard) as ‘organized, pithy, and
direct’ and deserving of transatlantic
attention. ISBN: 9781